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US-based microdisplay developer Kopin Corporation announced that it has decided to build a full-scale OLED microdisplay production line, at the company's Westborough, Massachusetts headquarters.

Kopin says it purchased a state of the art OLED deposition system and all related equipment that is required for the new production line. When this line comes online, Kopin will be the second OLED microdisplay maker in the US together with Samsung's eMagin. 

Ths is a guest post by Ajit Krishnan, Director, New Business Development, Office of the CTO, Applied Materials, Max McDaniel, VP/CMO Display Business Unit, Applied Materials, Gunther Haas, CTO MICROOLED, and Thierry Bissuel, CEO MICROOLED. 

The pursuit of the ideal AR/VR microdisplay has become one of the most complex engineering challenges in our industry, with massive investments and the trajectory of spatial computing at stake. At its core lies a deceptively simple problem: how to produce red, green, and blue light from pixels 50 times smaller than a strand of human hair—without compromising efficiency, color accuracy, or the ability to manufacture at scale for mass adoption.

While many in the industry continue to wrestle with this challenge, evidence suggests that Si2OLED technology provides a compelling solution. To appreciate the significance of this approach, it is important to examine the prevailing methods in the market—and understand where they fall short.

Today’s leading commercial OLEDoS microdisplays largely rely on a white OLED combined with color filters (W-OLED + CF). In this setup, a white light source illuminates all pixels, and filters selectively pass red, green, or blue light to form images. This is the same architecture used in displays from companies like Sony, including those found in devices such as Apple Vision Pro. While functional, this design suffers from a fundamental limitation: color filters inherently waste light. Only about 25%  of the emitted light contributes to the final image, while the rest is absorbed. This inefficiency forces higher driving currents to achieve acceptable brightness, increasing power consumption, accelerating material degradation, and ultimately reducing device lifespan. In addition, in order to reach the required brightness levels, WOLED+CF architectures require the use of stacked, so-called tandem OLED devices which require a high operating voltage of around 12V which puts severe constraints on the CMOS backplane technology.

Two years after Apple started shipping its Vision Pro headset, there are reports that the company has decided to cancel the product line, and it will not continue to develop the next version. The development team has been disbanded, and Apple will focus now on its future AR AI headset.

Apple released the Vision Pro back in February 2024, and while the device was highly praised for its next-gen technologies and design, its high price ($3,500), heavy weight - and lack of real need, meant that consumer demand was low. In October 2025 Apple released a new edition with an improved chipset, but this did not create any real demand either.

The OLED Marketplace is expanding its microLED display catalog, and now offers a new 0.13" VGA (640x480) 2.7 million nits green monochrome microLED microdisplay.

This is the second microLED microdisplay on the OLED Marketplace, following the 0.12" VGA microdisplay (from a different producer) that was added last month.

OLED microdisplay developer BCDTek announced that it has successfully completed its Series A1 financing round, led by Sichuan Xingchuan, and included several investors.

BCDTek said it raised hundreds of millions of yuan, which could mean anything from around $30 million to $130 million USD. In June 2025 BCDTek raised $83.5 million in its pre-Series A round, and back then it said it plans to increase it soon to $140 million - which likely means that the current tranche amounted to $56 million (380 million yuan).

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS developed their highest resolution OLED microdisplay, and will demonstrate it soon at SID Displayweek 2026.

The display is a 1.07" 2048x2048 (9.3 um) RGB stripe OLED microdisplay, that is based on the institute’s proprietary high-voltage backplane circuit concept. 

Sidtek has formally launched its OLED Meishan microdisplay module fab expansion project. The company says that the first phase in this project is expected to be complete by June 2027.

Sidtek will invest around $225 million in this project, which will include, in addition to the capacity expansion, also an establishment of an IC R&D center, and an OEM production line for AR/VR headset production.

The US Navy announced that it has awarded Collins Elbit Vision Systems (CEVS) a $585 million contract for the production and supply of new F-35 fighter jet head-mounted displays. This new contract includes both LCD and OLED display configurations.

These helmets will be utilized by the US navy, in addition to international program partners and foreign customers. All deliveries in the new contract are expected to be completed by July 2029.

OLED microdisplay developer Seeya Technology has successfully went public today, in an IPO at the Shanghai STAR Stock Exchange (ticker: 688781). The stock performed very well on the first day of trading, and jumped 102.82% to 46 RMB per share. Seeya filed for its IPO back in June 2025.

Seeya Technology was established in 2016, and is the first of the new range of OLED microdisplay companies in China that managed to achieve mass production of high-quality OLED microdisplays.

Sunic System announced plans to expand its production capacity at its Plant B at the Pyeongtaek Brain City industrial complex, as it gets ready for increased orders for 8.6-Gen OLED production units, OLED microdisplay production systems - and perovskite solar panel deposition systems.

Sunic says that it will invest 15.2 billion Won (just over $10 million USD) in the new expansion project. This is in addition to its already announced plans to invest 19 billion Won ($12.5 million USD) to expand its capacity at its Plant A at in the same industrial complex.